negateverb [ T ]
uk/nɪˈɡeɪt/us/nɪˈɡeɪt/formalto cause something to have no effect:
The increase in our profits has been negated by the rising costs of running the business.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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negation
noun [ U ] uk/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/